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Posts tagged with 'moose' at MetaFilter.Sun, 18 Sep 2016 23:49:31 -0800Sun, 18 Sep 2016 23:49:31 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60I can't keep all these cervids straighthttp://www.metafilter.com/162364/I%2Dcant%2Dkeep%2Dall%2Dthese%2Dcervids%2Dstraight
<a href="http://elodieunderglass.tumblr.com/post/150162199938">I feel like people need to know the Great Moose Truths.</a> <small>[non-tumblr-logged in readers can <a href="http://naamahdarling.tumblr.com/post/150207026221/i-feel-like-people-need-to-know-the-great-moose">view here</a>]</small> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.162364Sun, 18 Sep 2016 23:49:31 -0800the man of twists and turnsjust passing throughhttp://www.metafilter.com/156310/just%2Dpassing%2Dthrough
<a href="http://themarinedetective.com/2013/04/03/whats-the-biggs-deal/">Bigg's Killer Whales</a>, formerly <a href="http://www.orcanetwork.org/nathist/transients.html">'transients'</a>, eat marine mammals like <a href="http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2012-08-10/attack-passing-predator">dolphins, porpoises, seals and sea lions, and other whales</a>. But sometimes they eat <a href="http://themarinedetective.com/2013/03/02/oh-deer-a-rare-meal-for-mammal-eating-killer-whales/">the occasional land mammal as well...</a>
From <a href="http://themarinedetective.com/blog/">The Marine Detective</a> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.156310Sat, 16 Jan 2016 11:22:30 -0800the man of twists and turnsThough it's horrible to visit...http://www.metafilter.com/156142/Though%2Dits%2Dhorrible%2Dto%2Dvisit
<a href="http://www.bambinomusical.com/Moosylvania/">A Salute to MOOSYLVANIA</a> Recorded Live at the Moosylvania Jazz Festival! <i>The time: 12:45 AM - - the date: June 14, 1962 - - the temperature: 12 degrees above zero...</i> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.156142Fri, 08 Jan 2016 04:54:40 -0800WolfdogWorld Cup for People Who Would Rather Watch Cute Goatshttp://www.metafilter.com/139911/World%2DCup%2Dfor%2DPeople%2DWho%2DWould%2DRather%2DWatch%2DCute%2DGoats
Not enough kicking of balls around to watch? Here is some more kicking of balls around. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa_0-O8WSOU">Moose playing with ball.</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bikEj8D5PxI">Other moose playing with ball.</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I76rz9z3lm8">Horse playing with ball.</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cR343qUMmU">More horses playing with balls.</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqLU-o7N7Kw">Crow and Dog play with ball.</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvUwmYqnX8">Elephant plays with ball.</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnCipcDzm_w">Squirrel plays with ball.</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnfB3sB3VL8">Deer plays with ball.</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu31o9zzHQs">Goat plays with ball.</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnVw--O7fS8">Rhinoceros plays with ball.</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNSaDo2qGWg"> Tiny parrot plays with ball.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.139911Fri, 13 Jun 2014 14:58:20 -0800ErasmouseThe goat says "Meh"http://www.metafilter.com/139266/The%2Dgoat%2Dsays%2DMeh
Visualize a comic book, in your language, and imagine what would be written in the text balloon coming from the mouth of an animal. Now translate it. <a href="http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Personal/dabbott/">Derek Abbott</a> of The University of Adelaide (<a href="https://www.metafilter.com/90173/An-Open-and-Shud-Case">previously</a>) has compiled <a href="http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Personal/dabbott/animal.html">"the world's biggest multilingual list" of animal sounds, commands, and pet names.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.139266Wed, 21 May 2014 10:29:21 -0800Room 641-A"You're a mean little girl!"http://www.metafilter.com/136886/Youre%2Da%2Dmean%2Dlittle%2Dgirl
<a href="http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2014/02/21/09/20/moose-attack-filmed-by-wes-livingston">"First time I ever got beat up by a baby moose."</a> -- Maine moose trapper/tagger Wes Livingston gets mauled by an ungrateful juvenile moose on video. <small>[via 9MSN; TW: animal mauling; Livingston is ok] </small> <a href="http://www.maine.gov/ifw/aboutus/news_events/pressreleases/single.shtml?id=613593">Maine's new moose-collaring study described here.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.136886Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:40:44 -0800spitbullYou call that a moose?http://www.metafilter.com/135723/You%2Dcall%2Dthat%2Da%2Dmoose
<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/01/15/262916045/thomas-jefferson-needs-a-dead-moose-right-now-to-defend-america">Thomas Jefferson Needs a Dead Moose Right Now to Defend America!</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.135723Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:39:09 -0800empathA Redtail's Tale or What Does the Fox Dream?http://www.metafilter.com/132438/A%2DRedtails%2DTale%2Dor%2DWhat%2DDoes%2Dthe%2DFox%2DDream
<a href="http://www.minnasundberg.fi/">A REDTAIL'S DREAM</a> Two years ago, Minna Sundberg was an art student who aspired to write and draw graphic novels so she decided to create a 'practice comic' while still in school. It was a fantasy adventure based upon Finnish mythology - not like Norse Gods, the omnipotent entities here were spirit animals, including an irresponsible young fox spirit who messed up the Northern Lights (also known as 'Fox Fire') and pulled the population of a rural village into a Limbo-like 'dream bubble' between Life and the Afterlife. The task of helping them all return home (through a series of tasks ranging from odd jobs to death-defying feats) fell to a pair of unlikely heroes, Hannu, a young man who still had some growing up to do, and Ville, his faithful dog, who would become much more than 'just a dog'. When Minna began publishing pages to the web, its beautiful art and interesting characters (human and animal) were far better than you'd expect from a 'practice comic', and it gained quite a following, making the semi-finals of this year's <a href="http://www.comicmix.com/mix-march-madness-webcomics-tournament/2013/03/25/final-four-of-the-mix-march-madness-webcomics-tournament-vote-now/">ComicMix.com webcomic tournament</a>. The encouraging response prompted Minna to expand the tale from a planned 150 to 550 pages (with no loss in quality), and now, after nearly two years of daily pages, the end of the tale is less than two weeks away. But please, <a href="http://www.minnasundberg.fi/comic/page00.php">read it from the beginning</a>, because, you know, SPOILERS. (But by page 444, you will believe a swan can have fur and four legs.) Any comparisons to Ursula Verson's Hugo Award winning <a href="http://diggercomic.com/">"Digger"</a> (which ran 800 pages over 4 years and was in black and white) are welcome. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.132438Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:17:16 -0800oneswellfoopWatching a thing done well is a pleasure in itselfhttp://www.metafilter.com/131664/Watching%2Da%2Dthing%2Ddone%2Dwell%2Dis%2Da%2Dpleasure%2Din%2Ditself
Jimmy DiResta has made a lot of videos for MAKE Magazine over the past year, and here he shares his five favorites: <a href="http://makezine.com/video/diresta-celebrating-one-year-on-make/">http://makezine.com/​video/​diresta-celebrating-one-year-on-make/</a> Watching someone who is good at their job is always a pleasure.
These videos are time-lapse (mostly!) and feature no sounds beyond the noises of his tools. The rapid, sure movements of his hands are mesmerizing and the sounds are variously awesome/charming/giddy. The moose-mounting video has lovely little hammer noises and a blowtorch; watching Rodin's <em>Thinker</em> drown in pink was pretty great.
<small>He has some tools I don't even know what those things are!</small> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.131664Thu, 05 Sep 2013 11:02:29 -0800wenestvedtWhat's Killing Minnesota's Moose?http://www.metafilter.com/130370/Whats%2DKilling%2DMinnesotas%2DMoose
<a href="http://www.onearth.org/articles/2013/07/climate-change-could-wipe-out-minnesotas-iconic-moose">The iconic monarch of the North Woods is dying at an alarming rate.</a> Is it climate change, a brain-piercing parasite, or is something else to blame? tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.130370Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:22:21 -0800brundleflyThe Most Canadian Story Everhttp://www.metafilter.com/128881/The%2DMost%2DCanadian%2DStory%2DEver
<a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/06/07/truck-carrying-fireworks-hits-moose-on-trans-canada-highway-shuts-down-road-for-5-5-hours-and-lights-up-the-sky/">Truck carrying fireworks hits moose on Trans-Canada Highway, shuts down road for 5.5 hours and lights up the sky.</a> (pictures and video, driver and passenger unharmed.) tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.128881Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:53:43 -0800The WhelkThe Moose Cleansehttp://www.metafilter.com/124779/The%2DMoose%2DCleanse
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/02/the-moose-cleanse/272788/?google_editors_picks=true">Remember, it's not about "not eating" human food. It's about eating more pondweed.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.124779Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:38:07 -0800TesseractiveQuadcopter finds moosehttp://www.metafilter.com/123609/Quadcopter%2Dfinds%2Dmoose
<a href="http://www.nrk.no/kultur-og-underholdning/1.10863780">Fellow Norwegians used a quadcopter in the woods</a> and came up on a moose. The audio when they discover it is funny, even if you don't understand Norwegian. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.123609Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:50:50 -0800tingoThe cosmos is also within us, we're made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos, to know itself.http://www.metafilter.com/121532/The%2Dcosmos%2Dis%2Dalso%2Dwithin%2Dus%2Dwere%2Dmade%2Dof%2Dstarstuff%2DWe%2Dare%2Da%2Dway%2Dfor%2Dthe%2Dcosmos%2Dto%2Dknow%2Ditself
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage">Cosmos: A Personal Voyage</a> is a thirteen-part television series of one hour shows written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan">Carl Sagan</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Druyan">Ann Druyan</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Soter">Steven Soter</a>, that was aired at the tail end of 1980 and was - at the time - the most widely watched series in the history of American public television. It is best introduced by an audio excerpt of one of his books, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M">The Pale Blue Dot</a>. Inside is a complete annotated collection of the series. 1<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1ImgOcOPM">"The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean"</a>September 28, 1980
<em>After an introduction by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Druyan">Ann Druyan</a>, including the benefits of the end of the Cold War, Carl Sagan opens the program with a description of the cosmos and a "Spaceship of the Imagination" (shaped like a dandelion seed). The ship journeys through the universe's hundred billion galaxies, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Group">Local Group</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy">Andromeda Galaxy</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way">Milky Way</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Nebula">Orion Nebula</a>, our Solar System, and finally the planet Earth. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes">Eratosthenes</a>' successful calculation of the circumference of Earth leads to a description of the ancient Library of Alexandria. Finally, the "Ages of Science" are described, before pulling back to the full span of the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Calendar"> Cosmic Calendar</a>.</em>
2<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Zh69TB0lU&feature=fvwrel">"One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue"</a>October 5, 1980
<em>Sagan discusses the story of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heikegani">Heike crab</a> and artificial selection of crabs resembling samurai warriors, as an opening into a larger discussion of evolution through natural selection (and the pitfalls of intelligent design). Among the topics are the development of life on the Cosmic Calendar and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion">Cambrian explosion</a>; the function of DNA in growth; genetic replication, repairs, and mutation; the common biochemistry of terrestrial organisms; the creation of the molecules of life in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller-Urey_experiment">Miller-Urey experiment</a>; and speculation on alien life (such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter#Possibility_of_life">life in Jupiter's clouds</a>). In the Cosmos Update ten years later, Sagan remarks on RNA also controlling chemical reactions and reproducing itself and the different roles of comets (potentially carrying organic molecules or causing the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_extinction_event">Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event</a>).</em>
3<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ9mzxGf_dk&feature=fvwrel">"The Harmony of the Worlds"</a>October 12, 1980
<em>Beginning with the separation of the fuzzy thinking and pious fraud of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology">astrology</a> from the careful observations of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy">astronomy</a>, Sagan follows the development of astronomical observation. Beginning with constellations and ceremonial calendars (such as those of the Anasazi), the story moves to the debate between Earth and Sun-centered models: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy">Ptolemy</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model">geocentric worldview</a>, Copernicus' theory, the data-gathering of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe">Tycho Brahe</a>, and the achievements of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler">Johannes Kepler</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%27s_laws_of_planetary_motion">Kepler's laws of planetary motion</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somnium_(Kepler)">the first science-fiction novel</a>).</em>
4<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yT-h7RhRa0&feature=related">"Heaven and Hell"</a>October 19, 1980
<em>Sagan discusses comets and asteroids as planetary impactors, giving recent examples of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event">Tunguska event</a> and a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno_(crater)#Formation">lunar impact described by Canterbury monks in 1178</a>. It moves to a description of the environment of Venus, from the previous fantastic theories of people such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky">Immanuel Velikovsky</a> to the information gained by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera">Venera landers</a> and its implications for Earth's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect">greenhouse effect</a>. The Cosmos Update highlights the connection to global warming.</em>
5<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo7buFS_dLo&feature=related">"Blues for a Red Planet"</a>October 26, 1980
<em>The episode, devoted to the planet Mars, begins with scientific and fictional speculation about the Red Planet during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Rice_Burroughs">Edgar Rice Burroughs</a>' science fiction books, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival_Lowell">Percival Lowell's</a> false vision of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_canals">canals on Mars</a>). It then moves to<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Goddard_(scientist)"> Robert Goddard'</a>s early experiments in rocket-building, inspired by reading science fiction, and the work by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_planetary_probes#Mars_probes">Mars probes</a>, including the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_probes">Viking</a>, searching for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(planet)">life on Mars</a>. The episode ends with the possibility of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars">terraforming</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Mars">colonization</a> of Mars and a Cosmos Update on the relevance of Mars' environment to Earth's and the possibility of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_mission_to_Mars">manned mission to Mars</a>.</em>
6<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Qs3iXqgzs&feature=relmfu">"Travellers' Tales"</a>November 2, 1980
<em>The journeys of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program">Voyager probes</a> is put in the context of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_in_the_Low_Countries">Netherlands in the seventeenth century</a>, with a centuries-long tradition of sailing ship explorers, and its contemporary thinks (such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantijn_Huygens">Constantijn Huygens</a> and his son <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens">Christian</a>). Their discoveries are compared to the Voyager probes' discoveries among the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter%27s_natural_satellites">Jovian</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_natural_satellites">Saturn</a> systems. In Cosmos Update, image processing reconstructs Voyager's worlds and Voyager's last portrait of the Solar System as it leaves is shown.</em>
7<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfa2lUj6TS0&feature=relmfu">"The Backbone of Night"</a>November 9, 1980
<em>Carl Sagan teaches students in a classroom in his childhood home in Brooklyn, New York, which leads into a history of the different mythologies about stars and the gradual revelation of their true nature. In ancient Greece, some philosophers (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos">Aristarchus of Samos</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales_of_Miletus">Thales of Miletus</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaximander">Anaximander</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodorus_of_Samos">Theodorus of Samos</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empedocles">Empedocles</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democritus">Democritus</a>) freely pursue scientific knowledge, while others (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato">Plato</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle">Aristotle</a>, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoreanism">Pythagoreans</a>) advocate slavery and epistemic secrecy.</em>
8<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abp3q7aYOss&feature=relmfu">"Journeys in Space and Time"</a>November 16, 1980
<em>Ideas about time and space are explored in the changes that constellations undergo over time, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift">redshift</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_shift">blueshift</a> measured in interstellar objects, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation">time dilation</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity">Albert Einstein's theory of relativity</a>, the designs of both Leonardo da Vinci and spacecraft that could travel near light speed, time travel and its hypothetical effects on human history, the origins of the Solar System, the history of life, and the immensity of space. In Cosmos Update, the idea of faster-than-light travel by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole">wormholes</a> (researched by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Thorne">Kip Thorne</a> and shown in Sagan's novel Contact) is discussed.</em>
9<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7L6SZPxgNg&feature=relmfu">"The Lives of the Stars"</a>November 23, 1980
<em>The simple act of making an apple pie is extrapolated into the atoms and subatomic particles (electrons, protons, and neutrons) necessary. Many of the ingredients necessary are formed of chemical elements formed in the life and deaths of stars (such as our own Sun), resulting in massive <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_giant">red giants</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova">supernovae</a> or collapsing into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_dwarf">white dwarfs</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star">neutron stars</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar">pulsars</a>, and even <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole">black holes</a>. These produce all sorts of phenomena, such as radioactivity, cosmic rays, and even the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime">curving of spacetime by gravity</a>. Cosmos Update mentions the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A">supernova SN 1987A</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_astronomy">neutrino astronomy</a>.</em>
10<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ENNgO4z5c&feature=relmfu">"The Edge of Forever"</a>November 30, 1980
<em>Beginning with the origins of the universe in the Big Bang, Sagan describes the formation of different types of galaxies and anomalies such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_collision">galactic collisions</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasar">quasars</a>. The episodes moves further into ideas about the structure of the Universe, such as different dimensions (in the imaginary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland">Flatland</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract">four-dimensional hypercubes</a>), an infinite vs. a finite universe, and the idea of an oscillating Universe (similar to that in Hindu cosmology). The search into other ideas such as dark matter and the multiverse is shown, using tools such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Array">Very Large Array in New Mexico</a>. Cosmos Update shows new information about the odd, irregular surfaces of galaxies and the Milky Way perhaps being a barred spiral galaxy.</em>
11<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkVXV_I6mRA&feature=relmfu">"The Persistence of Memory"</a>December 7, 1980
<em>The idea of intelligence is explored in the concepts of computers (using bits as their basic units of information), whales (in their songs and their disruptions by human activities), DNA, the human brain (the evolution of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_stem">brain stem</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontal_lobe">frontal lobes</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron">neurons</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_hemisphere">cerebral hemispheres</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosum">corpus callosum</a> under the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_brain">Triune Brain Model</a>), and man-made structures for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence">collective intelligence</a> (cities, libraries, books, computers, and satellites). The episode ends with speculation on alien intelligence and the information conveyed on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record">Voyager Golden Record</a>.</em>
12<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DgWOlqa-iQ&feature=relmfu">"Encyclopaedia Galactica"</a>December 14, 1980
<em>Questions are raised about the search for intelligent life beyond the Earth, with UFOs and other close encounters refuted in favor of communications through <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI">SETI</a> and radio telescope such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory">Arecibo Observatory</a>. The probability of technically advanced civilizations existing elsewhere in the Milky Way is interpreted using the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation">Drake equation</a> and a future hypothetical Encyclopedia Galactica is discussed as a repository of information about other worlds in the galaxy. The Cosmos Update notes that there have been fewer sightings of UFOs and more stories of abductions, while mentioning the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megachannel_ExtraTerrestrial_Assay#Sentinel.2C_META.2C_and_BETA">META</a> scanning the skies for signals.</em>
13<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6C9taivF40&feature=relmfu">"Who Speaks for Earth?"</a>December 21, 1980
<em>Sagan reflects on the future of humanity and the question of "who speaks for Earth?" when meeting extraterrestrials. He discusses the very different meetings of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlingit_people">Tlingit people</a> and explorer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_de_Galaup,_comte_de_La_P%C3%A9rouse">Jean-François de La Pérouse</a> with the destruction of the Aztecs by Spanish conquistadors, the looming threat of nuclear warfare, and the threats shown by destruction of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#Destruction_of_the_Library">Library of Alexandria</a> and the murder of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia_of_Alexandria">Hypatia</a>. The episode ends with a overview of the beginning of the universe, the evolution of life, and the accomplishments of humanity and makes a plea to for mankind to cherish life and continue its journey in the cosmos. The Cosmos Update notes the preliminary reconnaissance of planets with spacecraft, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of apartheid in South Africa, and measures towards the reduction of nuclear weapons.</em> <blockquote>For those in the US,<a href="http://www.hulu.com/cosmos"> it is also available on Hulu</a> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/80234/Billions-and-BillionsOK-make-that-29-years-ago">Previously</a>)</blockquote>14"<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juXn972d3g8">Ted Turner Interviews Dr. Sagan</a>"
<em>Some versions of the series, including the first North American home video release (though not the DVD release), included a specially-made fourteenth episode, which consisted of an hour-long interview between Sagan and Ted Turner, in which the two discussed the series and new discoveries made in the years since its first broadcast.</em>
15"<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP7K9SycELA">The Meat Planet</a>"Jun 28, 2011
<em>In this never before seen episode of Cosmos, Carl Sagan takes us on a journey to the often misunderstood Meat Planet, examining it's origins, geological activity and atmosphere among many other unsettling details. <a href="http://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/meatplanet/origins.htm">More information on The Meat Planet</a>.</em> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/109982/Lost-Episode-of-Cosmos-Found">Previously</a>)
<em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot_(book)">Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)</a> is a non-fiction book by Carl Sagan. It is the sequel to Cosmos: A Personal Voyage and was inspired by the "Pale Blue Dot" photograph, for which Sagan provides a sobering description. In this book, Sagan mixes philosophy about the human place in the universe with a description of the current knowledge about the Solar System. He also details a human vision for the future.</em> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wZauL04R9s">The partial audio recorded by Sagan can accessed here</a> (40:03)
For those who have watched all of the episodes and still can't get enough of Cosmos, <a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08/cosmos-to-get-a-sequel-hosted-by-neil-degrasse-tyson/">there is a sequel planned to be hosted by Niel DeGrasse Tyson and aired sometime in 2013</a> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/106242/The-man-who-killed-Pluto-doesnt-DESERVE-those-sweaters">Previously</a>) tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.121532Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:07:44 -0800BlasdelbIsle Royale's Wolf Population: on the Brink of Extinctionhttp://www.metafilter.com/116982/Isle%2DRoyales%2DWolf%2DPopulation%2Don%2Dthe%2DBrink%2Dof%2DExtinction
Isle Royale is a <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=48.025360,-88.825836&sll=47.120361,-88.395996&spn=0.844574,1.189270&sspn=6.756592,9.514160&t=k&hl=en">206 square mile island</a> in Lake Superior, over 15 miles from the mainland. Most years, it is isolated from the mainland. The moose and wolf populations of Isle Royale are isolated, and <a href="http://www.isleroyalewolf.org/population_dynamics">wholly interconnected</a> with <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/evotourism/Evotourism-World-Tour-Isle-Royale-Michigan.html">each other</a>.
In the last decade there has been a decline in the wolf population on Isle Royale. Recent evidence shows that the wolf population has collapsed. <a href="http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/resshow/perry/bios/allendurward.htm">Durward Allen</a> initiated the Isle Royale Wolf and Moose study in 1958. The study is now run by the <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/index.jsp">National Science Foundation</a>, <a href="http://iri.mtu.edu/">Michigan Tech</a>, and the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/isro/index.htm">National Park Service</a>. Researchers now have over 50 years of data about the wolf and moose population - the largest continuous predator-prey study in the world.
In 1980, there were 50 wolves on Isle Royale. In 2010, there were about sixteen. <a href="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2011/04/how-stable-future-isle-royale-national-parks-wolf-population7994">In 2011, there were about nine</a>. <a href="http://www.michiganradio.org/post/video-isle-royale-wolves-hanging-their-teeth">Researchers made educated guesses</a> about why the population has declined. Disease (a dog brought parvovirus over to the Island in the 1990's), lower moose populations to feed the wolves, genetics of this inbred population, further isolation due to land bridges not forming now that Lake Superior freezes over less often, and bad luck: a gender imbalance among the wolf pups.
Their concern turned to alarm when they realized the only one of the remaining nine wolves on Isle Royale was female. This sort of gender imbalance was almost certainly a death knell for the population - but where were the other wolves? In May of 2012, Isle Royale National Park staff made a devastating discovery: <a href="http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_20864720/isle-royale-wolf-population-mystery-partially-solved">three dead wolves</a> - an Alpha Male, another male, and a female - <a href="http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2012/june/story70266.html">at the bottom of one of the island's abandoned mine shafts</a>. If no pups are born to the lone female wolf left on the island, Isle Royale's wolf population will die out in 5-7 years. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.116982Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:37:47 -0800Elly VortexThere's a law in New York state about driving with a live moose on the hood of your carhttp://www.metafilter.com/110367/Theres%2Da%2Dlaw%2Din%2DNew%2DYork%2Dstate%2Dabout%2Ddriving%2Dwith%2Da%2Dlive%2Dmoose%2Don%2Dthe%2Dhood%2Dof%2Dyour%2Dcar
<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94729656">Here <small>(from NPR's All Things Considered, 2008)</small> is Woody Allen's classic stand-up routine, the Moose Story.</a> A few more, from YouTube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdm0lm9_p7U">Science Fiction Film</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXWPKyqvDEM">Eggs Benedict</a> <small>(unfortunately with distracting animation)</small>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in0X7vOYVjU">on the Jack Paar show</a>. <small>MLYT</small> Some other clips (many of these are from his album <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000IMSB/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">Stand Up Comic</a>): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_tUxKhtUa8">The Vodka Ad</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbKMLXZlisQ">Oral Contraception</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1ZSP0jZR08">Pets</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clrFI7Muqf0">Down South</a>,
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6tjx_XsBJ8">NYU</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4sdnb0sYTc">Kidnapped</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLEEYn9Ydww">Vegas</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4By02ywHDU">Lost Generation</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PcJC2LoBm0">The Army</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2ZvK8AMchM">My Grandfather</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6MlRr3erbM">Private Life</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-RoQ9AXERw">Bullet</a> (delivery is a little weird on this one). <a href="http://www.ibras.dk/comedy/allen.htm#Moose">Here's transcripts of many of these routines.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.110367Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:45:47 -0800JHarrisImagine The Oatmeal with better illustration, less SEO and actual humor. Can you?http://www.metafilter.com/98396/Imagine%2DThe%2DOatmeal%2Dwith%2Dbetter%2Dillustration%2Dless%2DSEO%2Dand%2Dactual%2Dhumor%2DCan%2Dyou
<a href="http://lunchbreath.com/cartoons/charitable-thoughts-about-bedbugs">Charitable Thoughts About Bedbugs</a> from the new standard for random web infographic funnies, <a href="http://lunchbreath.com/latest-posts">Lunchbreath</a>. Since his last appearance <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/83058/Doesnt-Suck-Because-Its-Not-My-Favorite">here</a>, LB has also offered useful lifestyle advice about <a href="http://lunchbreath.com/cartoons/how-to-describe-your-used-furniture-on-craigslist-2">Craigslisting</a>, <a href="http://lunchbreath.com/cartoons/home-security-innovations-for-modern-living">Home Security</a>, <a href="http://lunchbreath.com/cartoons/thoughts-on-maslows-hierarchy-2">Maslow's Hierarchy</a>, <a href="http://lunchbreath.com/cartoons/inadequacies">Inadequacies</a>, <a href="http://lunchbreath.com/sets/portfolio-tips">Designer Portfolios</a> and <a href="http://lunchbreath.com/cartoons/greenwash">Greenwashing</a>, as well as less practical content about <a href="http://lunchbreath.com/cartoons/business-lumberjacks">Business Lumberjacks</a>, <a href="http://lunchbreath.com/sets/237">Underachieving AT-ATs</a>, <a href="http://lunchbreath.com/cartoons/stomach-allocation">Cow Stomachs</a> and <a href="http://lunchbreath.com/cartoons/moose-lips">Moose Lips</a>.<br><br>
But if you prefer a daily format that resembles a conventional comic strip but contains 3-to-5 times the punchlines, may I recommend <a href="http://www.bugcomic.com/">Bug</a>, which has recently covered <a href="http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/the-comeback-kid/">Snappy Comebacks</a>, <a href="http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/tales-to-excite/">Thrill-seeking</a>, <a href="http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/so-sez-the-fez/">Fezes</a>, <a href="http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/when-you-assume/">Optimism</a>, <a href="http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/burglar-beatdown/">Home Security</a> (yes, related to Lunchbreath's piece), <a href="http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/advancements-in-looting/">Looting</a> (also semi-related) and <a href="http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/the-eventual-exhumation/">Graverobbing</a>.<br><br>
OR if you just want some single-panel pop-culture in a distinctive style, say <a href="http://www.dernwerks.com/HWC/">Hello With Cheese</a>. Now you can't tell me webcomics are totally boring for at least two weeks. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.98396Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:28:04 -0800oneswellfoopMoosonee: I never cared for the satellite dish—although it blends in here. A snowy owl ran into it and died.http://www.metafilter.com/93120/Moosonee%2DI%2Dnever%2Dcared%2Dfor%2Dthe%2Dsatellite%2Ddishalthough%2Dit%2Dblends%2Din%2Dhere%2DA%2Dsnowy%2Dowl%2Dran%2Dinto%2Dit%2Dand%2Ddied
After checking the USGS <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/2010xwa7/us/index.html">map</a> for the <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010xwa7.php">earthquake</a> that happened on the Ontario-Quebec border region today, I bet you were wondering the same as me: What is the deal with Moose Factory?
It's the island off the coast of Moosonee, the ancestral home of the <a href="http://www.reocities.com/chapleaucree/mfhist.html">Swamp Cree</a>, the home of the <a href="http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/aboriginal-heritage/020016-2105.1-e.html">Hudson's Bay Company</a>, the site of the first English settlement in the Province of Ontario (1673) and is the home of the <a href="http://www.moosecree.com/">Moose Cree First Nation</a>. Here are <a href="http://www.lantz.ca/moosefactory.htm">recent</a> and <a href="http://www.pathoftheelders.com/photos?func=viewcategory&catid=1">historical</a> photos of the region. People also <a href="http://www.roughguides.com/website/travel/destination/content/default.aspx?titleid=124&xid=idh497132096_0207">travel</a> there including <a href="http://washowlodge.wordpress.com/about/">ecotourists</a>, <a href="http://www.rovingdentist.com/treks/moosefactory.html">the roving dentist</a> and <a href="http://www.kmfarm.us/1999-nt-moosonee.html">train enthusiasts</a>. <small>To the best of my knowledge there was never <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_Factory">a real moose factory</a> there.</small> tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.93120Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:11:15 -0800jessamynThe Wall of Fluffehhttp://www.metafilter.com/84043/The%2DWall%2Dof%2DFluffeh
<a href="http://reponere.com/walloffluff.php">More cute than you can possibly handle</a> (<a href="http://cuteoverload.com/2009/07/31/my-god-its-full-of-cute/">via</a>) tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.84043Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:31:52 -0800desjardins"The Worst"http://www.metafilter.com/71009/The%2DWorst
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/theater/21moos.html?8dpc">The Worst Flop in Broadway History?</a> First staged in 1983 for only one night, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_Murders">Moose Murders (wiki)</a> is legendary as the <a href="http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?_r=1&res=9400E3DF133BF930A15751C0A965948260">flop-of-flops</a> in Broadway history--and is now being revived for its kitsch value. From the NYT piece:
<i>...Critics described "Moose Murders" as "titanically bad" and "indescribably bad," a play that "would insult the intelligence of an audience consisting entirely of amoebas" (Brendan Gill, The New Yorker), that looked as it were staged by "a blind director repeatedly kicked in the groin" (John Simon, New York magazine)....
Years later, Frank Rich, who was then the theater critic for The New York Times, would call it "the worst play I've ever seen on a Broadway stage." (Mr. Rich's writings about "Moose Murders" have become such a part of its lore that a recent production of the play in Manila credited Mr. Rich with having written the play.)...</i>
Lately, the play has been revived in <a href="http://www.repertory-philippines.com/show.asp?showid=25">unlikely places</a>. What makes <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=qyBWXP7YWOIC&dq=%22moose+murders%22&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0">the play</a> so bad? Perhaps this....
<i>The mysterious moose character was a woman dressed in black holding an inflatable deer head emblazoned with the Miller High Life logo. Sidney Holloway, the mummified quadriplegic, was played by a mannequin, whose head rolled off during the first act. </i>
...is some indication? tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.71009Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:17:45 -0800ornate insectMy sister was bitten by a moose once.http://www.metafilter.com/66919/My%2Dsister%2Dwas%2Dbitten%2Dby%2Da%2Dmoose%2Donce
Either yesterday was April 1 in Sweden, or northern officials have just given the go ahead to build a 6.5 million dollar, handicapped accessible <a href="http://www.thelocal.se/9219/20071126/">moose</a>. There's even a <a href="http://www.thelocal.se/blog/20071127/252/">walkthrough video</a>. I'm perfectly will to accept the idea that I've been punked here, but it does pass the Snopes test. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.66919Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:43:26 -0800tkolarReverse Graffitihttp://www.metafilter.com/65626/Reverse%2DGraffiti
<a href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/01/11/reverse-graffiti/">Reverse Graffiti.</a> <a href="http://www.alexandreorion.com/ossario/ossario_eng.html">Alexandre Orion</a> makes <a href="http://www.alexandreorion.com/ossario/images2.html">it</a> for a <a href="http://www.alexandreorion.com/ossario/texts.html">cause</a> and sometimes <a href="http://www.alexandreorion.com/ossario/video.html">gets caught</a> <small>[YouTube]</small>. <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3379017">"Moose"</a> of <a href="http://symbollix.com/main.html">Symbollix</a> makes it for <a href="http://weburbanist.com/2007/07/11/guerilla-marketing-meets-reverse-graffiti">fun and profit</a>. See also --
<a href="http://www.scienceviews.com/indian/newspaper.html">Early reverse grafitti.</a>
<a href="http://www.dirtycarart.com/gallery/">Dirty car </a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2006/06/29/wash-me-taken-to-a-new-level-the-dust-art-of-scott-wade">art.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.65626Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:40:12 -0800brain_drainThat's one baaaaad (but sadly, now dead) moose.http://www.metafilter.com/59202/Thats%2Done%2Dbaaaaad%2Dbut%2Dsadly%2Dnow%2Ddead%2Dmoose
<a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-moose-vs-helicopter,0,3564784.story?coll=ny-main-bigpix">Charging moose brings down helicopter.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.59202Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:01:34 -0800flapjax at midnitePictureshttp://www.metafilter.com/49563/Pictures
<a href="http://www.gneborg.org/Animaux.htm">Pictures of a guy in a blue shirt.</a> More Inside tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.49563Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:37:10 -0800diosHoly Dayhttp://www.metafilter.com/41173/Holy%2DDay
<a href="http://www.bullmooseblog.com/2005/04/holy-day.html">Holy Day</a> Monsignor Moose informs all G-d fearing Americans that Wednesday, April 13th is the most sacred day in the Republican moral calendar.
Brothers and Sisters and all ye of faith, fall to your knees and genuflect at the altar of the almighty dollar! This is a time for deep and reflective prayer. For tomorrow, the Godly Republican Cardinals will gather in the House to provide eternal life for the blessed sacrament of the GOP - the permanent elimination of the estate tax for the ultra-wealthy. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.41173Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:05:59 -0800Postroad